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I guess you are being downvoted because you are saying that Libya was better off before Obama "saved" it. Seriously fuck him for his warmongering, he should be rotting in jail for what he did.
Downvotes are because @thendrill made a copy paste comment from @Viker. Or may be that one is. Two profiles probably.
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies (Daewoo mainly I think) building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventual…
> this is usually not possible since the water is still salty from the sea Excuse my naive question, but where did the population get drinking water from prior to the GMMR?
But when the urbanization really started I think most water for the big cities came from salt water processing plants.
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies (Daewoo mainly I think) building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventual…
Is there any worry about what would happen if the water supply runs out? The article noted that the GMMR might run out in 60-100 years and supplies millions of people with water.
I am always amazed by human engineering. I grew up near the Rhine in Germany, and literally they changed the position of the whole river into a different shape, depth, and form so that ships can flow on it. The planning of the event was called "Rheinbegradigung" [1] and they made the river straight, with lots and lots of watergates in between from the Ocean right up to Basel in Switzerland. Eversince I grew up, hundr…
Does this project link up to the Rhein-Amstel canal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%E2%80%93Rhine_Canal
Especially around the larger Hamburg area you can find lots of those canals, even with tiny lakes where you could park, rest and eat in little idyllic taverns.
Hamburg was the largest trade center of Germany at the time (hence its real name being Hansestadt Hamburg).
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies (Daewoo mainly I think) building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventual…
1. How come so much water collects in the desert, rather than closer to the coastline? 2. Is there some decent English text, in a book or online, which describes how Libyan society worked up until 2012? With focus on social and political structures and their interaction?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Syste...
That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.
Remind me again why the fuck Obama rallied NATO to fuck that country up again and how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist and progressives after doing that?
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1. How come so much water collects in the desert, rather than closer to the coastline? 2. Is there some decent English text, in a book or online, which describes how Libyan society worked up until 2012? With focus on social and political structures and their interaction?
For question one, Wikipedia refers to the source as a “fossil” aquifer, meaning the water has been in place for many thousands of years. It also claims the source is rainwater and doesn’t make an estimate about balance of inputs to pumping effort outputs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Syste...
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventually when the section comp…
Appologies for the mess up.
Another thing ? How can I request full account deletion from hacker news ?